Poetry. Winner of the 2013 Elizabeth P. Braddock Prize for Poetry. "In DUST JACKET, Alexis Orgera sits down in the middle of the earth, and watches it revolve around her and all of us—any way the wind
Fiction. Life in The Republic, a nation at once timeless and impossible, is a man lying in a road waiting to die, a scholar and a former death squad commander meeting at the crest of a high-rise offic
Poetry. "Nancy Kassell's new (and first) collection TEXT(ISLES) is mature, humane, truly learned. The poems, unique, accurate, beautiful, are a model of emotional intelligence. Their context is as mul
Poetry. "A catastrophic post-pastoral, nightmared and sung by a tornadic imagination. CHAIN LINK FENCE offers 'plot' as 'a series of shapes, a choreography.' And here the dream replaces our dreamer, '
Fiction. East Asian Studies. Illustrated by Max Currie. BABY, YOU'RE A RICH MAN follows the story of Kent Richman, a down-on-his luck, B-level variety star on Japanese television who is forced to go i
Fiction. Poetry.Insects are pumping their lancets in and out of my sore. It's an almost purple sore. It's a translation. Pornography. A child's drawing. My preferred method of making art involves a to
Poetry. Joe Hall is a devout poet. He is devoted to trailer parks, the drafty inner spaces of domesticity where we cry out for our lady help. He finds god, saints, saviors, in spiders in a woodpile. F
Literary Nonfiction. BOAT KID is the engaging memoir of what it's like to grow up aboard a sailboat. Throughout the 1980s and 90s, Melanie's family lived aboard a 47-foot sailboat, spending their summ
Poetry. THE GOLD THREAD is the most recent book of poetry by Sarah Kennedy. It is an astonishing collection of female saints and holy women speaking to God in a landscape of violence and hope."Sarah K
Poetry. "Anzalone's haunting sense of sound reverberates throughout this book, adding shadows and nuances to her startling images and glimpses of narrative. Rangy and always deeply engaged, this is a
Poetry. In LIVIDITY, poet Kim Rosenfield works within the outskirts of language, draining it of connotation and excess. Using words and phrases culled from linguistics textbooks and language-learning
Poetry. "If one reads enough Hal Sirowitz poems, the whole world seems to become material for poetry. That is part of the gift of his work.... Sirowitz's poetry is a celebration of ordinary l
Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. BOAT GIRL is the heartbreaking memoir of growing up aboard a sailboat. Throughout the 1980's and 90's, Melanie's family lived aboard a 47-foot sailboat, spending
Poetry. "Frank Montesonti's wit reminds me of the Depression, when all the great novelists wrote dialogue for movies. He can be as glib as the blonde bombshell in a 1930s suspense film or as deadpan a
Poetry. Winner of the second 42 Miles Press Poetry Award, Erica Bernheim's THE MIMIC SEA is a whirling dervish of a book, its poems set spinning by the speaker's search for the perfect velocity, for a
Poetry. Translated from the Croatian by Durda Vukelic-Ro?ic and Karl Kvitko. THE TIGER IS THE WORLD is a cycle of poems and prose poems in five parts inspired by the ferocity, willfulness and beauty o
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. W. S. Merwin is a defining writer for our age, a poet who, over the course of sixty years and more than forty books, has created a body of work of
Literary Nonfiction. Art. Theory & Criticism. FIELD STATIC is a collection of essays that examine the object through a range of approaches including Object Oriented Philosophy, Semiotics and relig
Poetry. "THE ORGAN BUILDER provides further proof that Austin MacRae is one of the finest poets of his generation. His work is both accessible and challenging; his considerable technical mastery serve
Fiction. NONE OF THIS IS REAL imagines a not-too-alternate reality of philosophical children, reincarnating chimeras, mutant matriarchies, and kind seers adapting to affliction. These five fictions qu
Poetry. "How is it Shelley truly did believe that Byron's Don Juan would be the great poem of its time? How is it that satire and pastiche become the most durable monuments to our romance? To our roma
Poetry. "FACELESS NAMES resounds from the ancient mesas of New Mexico, the Sangre de Cristo mysteries, the archetypical Demeter and Persephone, at last singing their own voices, sculpted, carved out o
Fiction. LGBT Studies. MORE LIGHT is a musical fantasia, in major and minor keys, of the generations at a crossroads and how the stories within our stories weave about us as we grow and change and rem
Fiction. "QUICKSAND was written to be an opera libretto. But it was written in the form of a novel....I am devoted to "mystery" stories. I read them one after another, mostly two or thr
Poetry. NAVIGATION is a 25-year retrospective look at the work of Dennis Phillips, from his first book in 1985, The Hero Is Nothing, to the most recent fine-print edition, Study for the Possibility of
Literary Nonfiction. Translated from the French by Brian Evenson. Champollion loved the novels of Fenimore Cooper, in particular The Last of the Mohicans. Mace explores Champollion's twin interests: E
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Fiction. Art. THE INSTITUTE FOR SPECIES SYSTEMIZATION: AN EXPERIMENTAL ARCHIVE documents the past projects and ongoing experimental processes of the ISS. This groundbreaki
Fiction. Edited by John Colburn, Michelle Filkins, and Margaret Miles. In its most soulful incarnation, what actually transpires in the vastness of the northern plains? The forty-one short stories gat
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Art. Memoir. In this bold and energetic debut, temporal malapropisms become purposeful play through Tamayo's poetics of code switching and homophonics. As Tamayo tackles
Literary Nonfiction. Art. Politics. VISIONS OF CHICAGO is a politically charged public art project taking place in front yards, empty lots and public spaces throughout Chicago, Illinois during a histo
Poetry. LGBT Studies. The autobiographical poems of Steven Reigns's INHERITANCE introduce us to the gains and losses of a true American family and detail the bequests of the shadows that linger. Reign
Poetry. Winner of the 2011 Grub Street Book Prize. "Frances McCue's book is the most moving account of a spouse's death I have ever read. While living abroad in Morocco he died suddenly, and the after
Poetry. Conjured from hen scratches and devil's tales, from family stories and ancestral songs, Linnea Johnson's poems migrate from a landscape of elegy to roost in the cliffs of lyric transformation.
Poetry. In A NORTH ATLANTIC WALL the poetry is drawn from fieldnotes, ragged prose, some passages displaying a resonant, if fragmentary, intensity. The elements of A NORTH ATLANTIC WALL may appear to
"The Morning News makes the divide between poetry and prose pointless. Choi is not particularly interested in the art/academic blurring of poetry/prose, but in taking each area to its limits." Sande C
Poetry. "Poetry needs Michael Miller. Indeed, anyone able to write a powerfully spare pair of lines like 'He tells himself, Nothing but a woman, / tells himself, We scavenge together' rewards the read
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. "Jorge Guitart's poetry is not for the masses but it is for everyone. THE EMPRESS OF FROZEN CUSTARD is awash in marvels. Guitart is a master of language, a tongue tricks
Poetry. LGBT Studies. Limited Edition. In this special series of eight perfect-bound books, each book is an anthology and a conversation between the guest curator and the elder(s) she hosts. In ELDERS
Fiction. African American Studies. Janis F. Kearney debuts her first fiction, a murder mystery based on an actual southern race murder. In this riveting story, Kearney paints a portrait of a small Ala
Poetry. "In AN ARCHITECTURE, Chad Sweeney reveals himself to be a Frank Gehry of language: making an overwhelming but coherent form in precise words that measure 'the violet gleam of girders,' where '
